Henry Waxman

Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) Need A Health Care Bill In Place To “Build On It Later”

NoisyRoom.net (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009

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Editorial: Promises of drug industry fall flat - Sacramento Opinion - Sacramento Editorial | Sacramento Bee

PharmaGossip (Free subscription) | yesterday

Is the support of the pharmaceutical industry needed for Congress to pass health care reform? Or is the price of that support too high for the people the reform package is trying to help? Those questions took on new urgency this week with the release of a study by AARP, the seniors advocacy group, that found that drug makers had raised the wholesale price of brand-name prescription drugs by 9 percent,...

• Editorial: Promises of drug industry fall flat - Sacramento Bee

None Dare Call It Fraud

What Really happened (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009

Imagine the reaction if investment companies provided only rosy stock and economic data to prospective investors; manufacturers withheld chemical spill statistics from government regulators; or medical device and pharmaceutical companies doctored data on patients injured by their products. Media frenzies, congressional hearings, regulatory investigations, fines and jail sentences would come faster...

Waxman "Let's Cat Out of Bag"

Infidel Bloggers Alliance (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009

Says ALG's Wilson, Current Healthcare Legislation a "Trojan Viper" Via Email For Immediate Release November 20th, 2009 "As bad as the current healthcare legislation already is, it is really intended to be a Trojan Viper. It will open the door a total government healthcare takeover." – ALG President Bill Wilson November 17th, 2009, Fairfax, VA—Terming the current Obama...

Hollywood tells lawmakers to back U.S. efforts in copyright trade talks

Post I.T. (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009

Hollywood urged key lawmakers Thursday to support trade negotiations that would set rules for policing copyright laws. The Motion Picture Association of America wrote a letter to several lawmakers including Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Va.) and House Commerce Committee Chairman Henry Waxman, asking them to support the Obama administration's efforts in the trade talks, which...

Henry Waxman Admits Current Health Care Bill Is A Trojan Horse

Hyscience (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009

While not exactly his words, he essentially admits that the health care bill is a trojan horse for complete government control over America's health care. Dan Riehl has the video and commentary . Related: Reid's Senate Health Care Bill Contains Monthly Abortion Premium for Taxpayers

Pull the plug on the climate change bill

MyDD (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009

Few problems require federal action more urgently than global warming. I admire the members of Congress who have been trying to address this issue. House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Henry Waxman tried to get the best deal he could. Senator John Kerry has tried to keep things moving in the upper chamber. Senator Lindsey Graham is getting tons of grief from fellow Republicans because he admits...

What to Do When Caught Spamming the Congressional Record? Raise Drug Prices!

Firedoglake (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009

Maybe granting drug companies an “indefinite monopoly” ( in the words of Henry Waxman ) isn't the greatest idea? Even if you think someone will wave a magic wand and make biologic drugs available to you, the $50,000 to $300,000 annual pricetag is going to put it out of the reach of countries already struggling to provide health care. Ask Sherrod Brown to save us from PhRMA and the Eshoo/Hagan/...

Stupak: A Familiar Trade-off for Liberals -- By: Ramesh Ponnuru

The Corner (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009

The horror of choice is a common theme of the commentary of the Stupak amendment from pro-choicers. Nancy Pelosi "shouldn't have had to face" the choice between accepting the amendment and seeing health-care legislation fail, writes Judith Warner at the New York Times site. Marcia Greenberger of the National Women's Law Center echoed the sentiment , as did Jeffrey Rosen at The New Republic...

National Council of La Raza stomps on the women the Congressional Hispanic Caucus threw under the bus

culturekitchen (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009

It takes a certain kind of moxie for an advocacy organization to basically go on the record as praising a group of machistas for taking away the rights from one group to allegedly favor another one. That's exactly what Janet Murguía and her platitude spewing machine just published on their website. Am particularly flabbergasted by the two following paragraphs: National Council of La Raza: LANDMARK...

A Friend’s Quixotic Quest for Congress

Gay Patriot (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009

At some point, I will have to blog about the consideration I have given to runnig against my big-spending Congressman Henry Waxman, a man who has spent 35 years representing Hollywood while doing nothing to stop the steady drain of entertainment jobs from his district. Ol’ Henry, like all too many on his side of [...]

Methinks They Protest Too Much: Abortionists' Complaints About the Pelosi Bill Disguise Their Private Glee

Vital Signs Blog (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009

Here's an interesting case of a fired-up, pro-abortion feminist complaining that Planned Parenthood and NARAL were not pro-abortion enough given their latest efforts with the Obama/Pelosi health care bill. Hmm. My take is that this is just another way for radical pro-abortionists like Jane Hamsher to spin the boondoggle bill. Specifically, it spins it in such a way that "moderate," supposedly...

Democrats Moving to Ditch Pro-Life Amendment to PelosiCare

The Essence of Politics (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009

Appearing on MSNBC today, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) declared: I am confident that the Stupak amendment will not be in the final version of the bill — we will be working very hard to eliminate it. The Stupak Amendment authored by Rep. Bart Stupak (D-MI) was adopted by a bipartisan majority (240-194-1) and would prohibit federal funding of abortions under the House Speaker Nancy Pelosis...

House Passes Chemical & Water Security Act (H.R. 2868)

eNewsUSA (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009

Nov 6: The House of Representatives passed by a vote of 230 to 193 the Chemical and Water Security Act of 2009 (H.R. 2868) [See WIMS 10/23/09]. According to a release from the Energy and Commerce Committee, the bill strengthens security at America's chemical plants and drinking water and wastewater facilities by establishing risk-based and reasonable security standards for these critical assets. H.R....

Stupak

A Plain Blog About Politics (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009

I have no idea what's going to happen on abortion in the Senate, or (assuming something gets through the Senate) in conference. It seems to me that the bargaining situation is like this: On the one hand, liberal Democrats in Congress are in a bad position because this (health care) is their issue -- a lot of them probably really agree with the rhetoric we heard throughout the weekend about the historic...

Health bill inches forward in House

obi jo | 07/31/2009

http://realhealthreform.wordpress.com/2009/07/31/quick-post-health-bill-inches-forward-in-house/ House Democrats pushed ahead with a compromise health overhaul today over liberals’ complaints, intent on achieving tangible — if modest — success on President Barack Obama’s top domestic priority ahead of a monthlong summer recess. “We’ve got to pass the bill. Not only do we have to, but we’re going to,”